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# Software Quality Assurance Engineer III

- **Company:** Vantage Systems
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $121,311.0 - $176,369.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Relational Databases, Software Engineering, Software Quality Assurance (SQA)
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e1d404f0f034e049

## About the Role

SECRET position. Personnel must possess a final DoD granted SECRET security clearance
Experience and Degree: Mid: PhD; Master's degree with 5 years of experience; Bachelor's degree with 10 years of experience; Associate degree with 15 years of experience, or High School diploma/GED with 20 years of experience
Experience:

 * Shall monitor every phase of the software development process so as to ensure design quality, making sure that the software adheres to defined standards.
 * Shall represent and report Mission Assurance, to provide oversight and verification of adherence to the defined processes.

## Description

* Shall define and develop SQA processes and conduct audits of code, builds, and documentation to ensure adherence to the standards as defined by the SQA and MA processes.
 * Shall work with developers to ensure the implemented processes are tailored to meet the needs of the project.
 * Shall work with the leads to support management of the software requirement specifications.
 * Shall track and coordinate changes to the requirements via a tracking tool.
 * Shall develop a framework using tracking tools to support development, planning, and execution of tests.
 * Shall customize and upgrade tracking tools.
 * Shall relational database design, deployment and administration.


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